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IBM really wants to be your multicloud integrator and can win
IBM is acquiring its way to be a multicloud manager and control plane. It has a good shot. Here's why,
Accenture acquires Argentinean cloud services firm Wolox
Founded in 2012, the Wolox team specializes in integrated services including digital business design, product creation and agile squads.
Microsoft's Azure marketing chief Julia White joins SAP
In the second Microsoft-to-SAP-related hiring announcement of the week, Azure Marketing Corporate VP Julia White is moving to SAP to become Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer.
SAP's Q4 shows improvement, adds Microsoft Azure alum as marketing chief
SAP issued its 2021 outlook as it aims to move its customer base to the cloud. Julia White will be chief marketing and solutions officer at SAP. She previously led product marketing for Microsoft Azure.
IBM continues shopping spree with Taos acquisition to boost hybrid cloud business
Big Blue has announced its second cloud consulting acquisition.
Windows 10X: Microsoft's 'cloud-powered' Chrome OS competitor inches closer
A new Windows 10X leak shows the Windows 10 variant is still on track to look a lot like Chtome OS. But the OS itself may matter less than the 'cloud-powered' service that will complement it.
Workday adds vaccine management to Return to Workplace offering
Workday is looking to enable customers to analyze immunizations, plan for scenarios, engage and support workers and tweak operating models.
Cloud software maker Zuora hires Cisco and Microsoft veteran Sri Srinivasan
Srinivasan spent twelve years running the Dynamics ERP business at Microsoft, and previously was at ERP pioneer Peoplesoft
Cloud software firm Veeva joins Ben & Jerry’s, Lemonade in becoming Public Benefit Corporation
The company will revise its charter to reflect a legal obligation to serve industry and employees in addition to shareholders.
Microsoft debuts its second 'vertical cloud': Microsoft Cloud for Retail
Microsoft's new retail cloud bundle is its second vertical cloud offering, following on the heels of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
Oracle Database 21c spotlights in-memory processing and ML, adds new low-code APEX cloud service
Because COVID drove customers to postpone upgrades last year, the latest annual update of Oracle database packs two years’ worth of new features. And it’s adding icing to the cake with a new low-code/no-code developer cloud service with a free tier to draw rookie developers.
M1 to tap Nokia in 5G standalone network deployment
Singapore telco has inked a deal to deploy Nokia's "cloud-native" Core platform, as it prepares to launch its 5G standalone network later this year.
Grafana Cloud adds free tier
The company behind the open source observability platform that entered a strategic deal with AWS is continuing to plow ahead with its own cloud, introducing a free tier.
Mimecast says hackers abused one of its certificates to access Microsoft accounts
Mimecast, a provider of email management software, said learned of the security incident from Microsoft.
Why Parler's revival on public cloud is complicated and unlikely
Even if the right-wing social network Parler wasn't being rejected by every major public cloud and hosting company, it would find it almost impossible to move to another site.
The dumbest passwords people still use
Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger
Research round-up: Cloud computing, IoT and cybersecurity, iPhone X and more
12 graphs which explain the tech news of the last month.
Photos: Inside vast abandoned mine set to be world's biggest data center
Norway's newest white-space data center has opened in a former mine. Lefdal Mine Datacenter could become the world's largest once of three of its five levels are filled.
Image tools for better online engagement
Make your posts more engaging and encourage more clicks and comments with these image-editing and graphics tools.
Internet of summer things for geeks
Breeze through the hot summer with these IoT-enabled devices and sensors, all controlled from your smartphone.
Azure HDInsight click-by-click guide: Get cloud-based Hadoop up and running today
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Hands-on with Azure Data Lake: How to get productive fast
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
The 10 scariest cloud outages (and lessons learned from them)
With more businesses and applications moving data to the cloud, even small outages can be devastating. By studying the worst cloud fails, we can find clues to avoiding future problems.
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Rio Olympics: the technology numbers
The most recent Summer Olympiad staked its place in history as the competition with the highest levels of digital engagement than any previous Olympic Games. We look at some of the key technology numbers behind the Rio events.
These 20 essential applications let you move easily between Windows and a Mac
Many professionals find themselves working on both Macs and PCs. If your work requires you to jump back and forth between Windows and Mac systems, here are some apps that will make your life easier.
Top 10 apps: These boast the most downloads so far this year
Survey Monkey has released its list of the most popular downloaded apps in the US on iOS and Android for the first six months of 2016. Pokemon Go was released in July so did not make it here.
A tour of IBM's cloud brokerage software cloudMatrix
IBM is betting that its cloudMatrix software will enable it to make a pivot from a systems integrator to a services integrator.
Photos: How cool is this? Datacenter at Arctic Circle's edge
At about 50 miles from the Arctic Circle, the frequent -25C (-13F) winter temperatures make the question of how to keep equipment racks cool less of an issue for the Hydro 66 datacenter.
15 major lessons tech companies learned this year
From hack attacks to the king of Macs, we learned some pretty deep truths in 2015
AWS to help Optus become 'end-to-end' cloud solutions supplier
Optus will build a dedicated business unit that works with AWS Professional Services to provide cloud services.
Pandemic pivot: How Home Depot managed demand spikes
Fahim Siddiqui, senior vice president of IT at Home Depot, talks to Larry Dignan about how the retail giant adapted to a surge in online demand due to COVID-19, and how it developed new features and applications and put omnichannel plans to the test. Read more: https://zd.net/34PdUxr
Guide: The benefits of serverless computing
Serverless architecture is a style of programming for cloud platforms that's changing the way applications are built, deployed, and - ultimately - consumed.
C3.ai on tackling CRM, education, social media regulation, and enterprise AI
Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, talks to ZDNet's Larry Dignan about his company's partnership with Microsoft and Adobe, AI's role in solving for COVID-19 and remote education, the filter bubble, and where enterprise AI is headed. Read more: https://zd.net/2TBFesT
AWS: The guide to the world's most powerful cloud service
A few brilliant strokes of ingenuity, combined with a large dose of capitalism, made the e-retailer into the world’s cloud services leader. What’s remarkable is how little of what this leader does is generally understood.
Honeywell's quantum computers available: How use cases, developers will evolve
ZDNet's Larry Dignan talks to Patty Lee, chief scientist for Honeywell Quantum, and Tony Uttley, president of Honeywell Quantum, about how software developers will use quantum resources, use cases that are emerging, and how enterprises will integrate it. Read more: https://zd.net/31TS7mG
TechnologyOne to pay AU$5.2m to former employee for unfair dismissal
The company acted in contravention of the Fair Work Act 2009.
Pure Storage CEO on the future of storage, multi-cloud, and containers
Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo caught up with ZDNet's Larry Dignan to talk about how the storage market is becoming more about software than hardware and data management.
VMWare SASE platform aims to centralise security controls through cloud
As part of the company's bid to address customers' needs during the pandemic.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise hopes to create a renaissance on-premise
Tiernan Ray tells Karen Roby that HPE’s GreenLake service is a way companies can use even supercomputers on a pay-as-you go basis, without going to the public cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/3kpd1RO
Mixed reality, autonomous vehicles, edge computing, and how IT leadership matters
Dell CTO John Roese outlines to Larry Dignan his view for the future and how education, healthcare, and transportation will digitally transform at a faster rate. Meanwhile, IT leadership matters more than ever. Read more: https://zd.net/3kbyNIy
Salesforce Work.com gets updates to improve employee engagement and in-person customer interaction
Sarah Franklin, EVP and GM, Platform, Trailhead and AppExchange at Salesforce talks with TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler about updates to Work.com that focus on improving employee engagement and safely handle in-person customer interactions as companies adjust to the new normal of COVID-19.
A basic guide to Google Cloud Platform services
The challenger in any competitive market has greater incentive to produce sharper and more customer-focused products and services. Google has to make a bigger splash, and for a company that isn’t known for being flashy, it’s not doing a bad job.
Apple HomePod versus Amazon Echo: Who is smarter, Siri or Alexa?
The two Jasons take opposing sides on their favorite intelligent agents in this week's Jason Squared. Read more: https://zd.net/2H179jc
All NSW government agencies required to use public cloud as default
Under the newly-announced state government's new cloud strategy.
QuickBooks Online
A usable small-business accounting service that's quick to configure and easy to learn, the initial release of QuickBooks Online lacks a number of features important in this market.
Windows Intune
Microsoft's cloud-based systems management service makes life simple for SMEs. There's no need for additional infrastructure, and complex tools can be wrapped in a way that makes them accessible even for part-time IT professionals.
Microsoft Office Web Apps
As an occasional extra for users of Microsoft's desktop Office 2010 suite, Office Web Apps is just about acceptable. However, it requires further development if it's to become a workable standalone solution.
Zoho Business
A rapidly maturing cloud-based office suite, Zoho Business is a good choice for small organisations looking for an online alternative to Microsoft Office. However, there's still room for improvement.
Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services 3.0
Fast deployment, browser-based management and the ability to protect any internet-connected Windows PC are the key selling points of this revamped hosted security service. It's Windows only and has one or two rough edges, but compares well with other small-business solutions.
Zoho Writer 2.0
<p> These days, there's increasingly little reason to use a traditional locally installed office suite. <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39284890,00.htm">Google Docs</a> and <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39284434,00.htm">Zoho</a>, for example, are both free and well-featured web-based suites — and both can be used offline, thanks to <a href="http://gears.google.com/">Google Gears</a>. Zoho is the most comprehensive suite of web-based applications for small businesses, and its flagship <a href="http://writer.zoho.com/home?serviceurl=%2Findex.do">word processor</a> recently received a major interface overhaul in its 2.0 incarnation. </p>
Google Docs beta
Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.
Zoho Show 2.0
<p> Over the past couple of years, AdventNet has launched a range of online applications and utilities, nearly all with APIs, under the <a href="http://www.zoho.com/">Zoho</a> banner. The company is steadily improving its large range of online products, making them a intriguing alternative to <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39286797,00.htm">Google Apps</a> on the one hand and <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39285683,00.htm">Microsoft Office</a> on the other. </p>
SatDrive
If you live in one of the many (mainly rural) parts of the country marked ‘here be no terrestrial broadband’ on the map, and you’re frustrated by that, then you’re likely to be interested in SatDrive from Interactive Satellite Services. Launched in September this year, the £14.99 a month SatDrive is a one-way service that provides download speeds of up to 4Mbps via a satellite link, but relies on a conventional upload link, or ‘back channel’, using a dial-up modem or ISDN connection. This makes it much cheaper than two-way satellite services such as BTopenworld’s Business 500, although it does mean that your Internet connection is severely asymmetric, will generally require a dedicated phone line, and isn’t ‘always on’ in the conventional sense.
OmniSky
OmniSky International, a partnership between US-based OmniSky Corporation and News International, will shortly launch its integrated wireless email and Web browsing service across Europe. In the UK, the company has been running a beta trial using Handspring's Visor and VisorPhone GSM add-on since February, and ZDNet UK has been evaluating the service on this platform for a month now. We have been impressed with OmniSky's usability, range of optimised content and, to a lesser extent, speed (it currently runs on a 9.6Kbit/s GSM network). You can still sign up for the beta program, and OmniSky is running a special introductory offer comprising a Visor Platinum, VisorPhone and three months' free service for £199 (ex. VAT).
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